[tlbuild] asy2.33 trials

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
> I updated Build/source/utils/asymptote with the new 2.33 sources.
> It compiled for me on i386-linux (CentOS 5.11) without problems,
> surprisingly enough.
>
> Those who build asy, give it a try and let me know how it goes.  (Glad
> it went through for you, Ken.)  If it compiles on the most common
> platforms, I'll update the support files in Master and commit the
> binary.

I just wanted to share John Bowman's reply related to the problem I
experienced (due to an old ghoscript installed on my system) and
mentioned a few days ago (when I didn't add any specifics):

Mojca


On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:30 PM, John Bowman wrote:
> Yes, the problem is that you must upgrade ghostscript to version 9.15 or
> later. The current version of ghostscript is now 9.16.
>
> Unfortunately the ghostscript authors made the mistake of introducing a new
> eps2write driver, with less functionality, and then quickly deprecating the
> old epswrite driver one. This means that there is no way to be compatible
> with both old and new ghostscript versions so everyone is forced to upgrade
> their ghostscript.
>
> Definitely don't ship asy 2.32 with TeXLIve as it won't work at all with
> ghostscript 9.15.
> It took me many months to figure out a way to use the new eps2write driver
> instead, so this upgrade is already way overdue. Many asy users upgraded
> their ghostscript in the fall of 2014 and ran in to this problem.
>
> asy 2.33 also fixes a lot of other bugs and there have been no issues with
> it
>
> -- John
>
> P.S. I believe Ghostscript 9.14 (March, 2014) includes a working eps2write
> driver but definitely don't use a version older than that.